Unicef Children's Day

Tuesday, October 23, 2007


Two buckets of safe water a day is the minimum ...
Two buckets of safe water a day is the minimum a child needs to live, yet 4000 children die EVERY DAY because they don't even have that. For many, the dangers lie in collecting water -- a job often handed out to girls and women. Instead of attending school, a child may walk several hours a day to the nearest water source. Children's health improves and school attendance rises when water-pumps are installed in schools. UNICEF works around the globe installing latrines and pumps but 1.1 billion people still drink unclean water. Basic sanitation and hygiene education has a dramatic effect on reducing mortality and poverty.

UNICEF and the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, ECHO, are working with local communities to boost child survival in Cambodia, which suffers from Asia's worst child mortality rate. An average of one of every eight children here dies before the age of five, in part because many have no access to water and sanitation facilities

Questions
1. Name a disease caused by unhealthy water?
2. Why do so many children miss school in some countries?
3. How many people in the world still drink unclean water?

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